Passenger-car construction.



, No. 847,505. PATENTED MAR. 19, 1907. A. E. OSTRANDBR. PASSENGER GARCONSTRUCTION.

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ALLEN EDWARD OSTRANDER, OF

PORA'TION OF NEW JERSEY.

PASSENGER-CAR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY, OF Si.LOUIS, MISSOURI, A COR- CONSTRUCTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 19, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLEN EDWARD Os-' TRANDER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Paterson, New Jersey, have invented a certain newand useful Improvement in Passenger-Car Construction, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portionof a passenger-car provided with window-frames embodying the features ofmy invention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view taken through theside-wall post which is arranged between the twin windows. Fig. 3 is avertical sectionai view taken through the side of the car and shows incross-section the frame for the semi-elliptical window, and Fig. 4 is ahorizontalsectional view taken through the center of the oval window andthe frame in which it is mounted.

' This invention relates to passenger-cars, and particularly to theconstruction of the frames for the windows in the side walls of the car.

Referring to the drawings, which represent the preferred form of myinvention, 1 designates an oval window in the side wall of the car.

2 designates twin windows arranged adjacent the oval window, and 3designates a semi-elliptical window arranged over the twin .vindows andpreferably provided with cathedral glass.

A vertical post 4, which forms part of the framing for the side wall, isarranged between the twin windows and extends ba h of thesemi-elliptical winden up to the side-plate angle 5, to which it isconnected, as shown in Fig. 3. This post, as shown in Fig. 2, is abuilt-up structure consisting of a T, to which wooden fillers 6 aresecured, the outside of the post being covered by a metal casing 7. Stopstrips 8 and pressed metal windowstops 9 are secured to these fillers,and loctween these stops and stop-strips the sashes of the twin windowsare arranged.

The sash .10 of the se1ni-elli ';tical window is connected to efinishing-batten or windfi ia t frame 11, that is fastened to thesublet.

vided with a flange 17,.yrhichis arranged on the outside of thecar-wall, and fastening dey vices 18 pass through said flange to connectsaid frame to the sidewall of the car. Said frame is also provided withan inwardly-ere tending flange 19, against which the sash of the window1 rests, and fastening devices 20 extend through said flange and sash toretain the sash in position. This frame 16 also may be either cast orformed from pressed metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let-- ters Patent, is

1. In a passenger-car, a metal windowframe provided with a flan e thatis arranged on the outside of the wafl of the car; substantially asdescribed.

2. In a passenge-car, a metal window frame provided with a flange thatis arranged on the outside ofthe wall of the car, and a flange at theinner side of said frame which is engaged by the sash of the window;substantially as described.

In a passenger-car, an oval-shape metal frame arranged in the side wallof the car and having the sash of a window mountedtherein; substantiallyas described.

4. In a passenger-car, an oval-shape meta! frame arranged in the wall ofthe car and having a window-sash mounted therein, saidframe beingprovided wit-h a flange that extends on the outside of the wall substantally as described.

5. In a passenger-car, a metal window frame of oval shape provided withan inwardly-extending flange, a window-sash arranged inside of saidframe and engaging said flange, andcl laterally-extending flange on saidframe which is arranged outside of he car-wall in which me frame ismounted; Substantially as described.

of the car 6. In a passenger-car, an oval-shape metal In testimonywhereof I hereunto affix my frame provided with anoutwardly-projectsignaturefln the presence of tWo Witnesses, IO in}?1fkliange to. receifve the fastening devices this 12th dayof November,1906. W 'o secure said rame in osi-tion, an inr Y Wardly-projectingflange on said frame, and AREA EDWARD OSTRMDEP a Window-sash arrangedinside of said frame and secured to the inwardly-projecting flangethereof; substantially as described. y

Witnesses EDWARD DARLING HILLMAN, RoBT. G. J EFFERY.

